How to pass context to the build method

[rugged portal]

How do you pass a context to the build method? I can find no example of how this should be done with the NodeJS SDK, and build appears to be the only container method that requires the context 🤷‍♂️

[weary idol]

@rugged portal seems to be a string? Looks to me that seems to be the path that you want your docker build to run from (https://docs.dagger.io/current/sdk/nodejs/reference/classes/api_client_gen.Container#build)

Similarly to docker build <context>

I just checked the code and seems like it needs a DirectoryID basically (https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/3642f7fb8f03df3b403652f8454adfebad57bf5a/sdk/nodejs/api/client.gen.ts#L131)

so you can do something like this

  // get reference to the local project
  const source = await client.host().directory(".", ["node_modules/"]).id();


  // build Dockerfile
  const build = await client
    .container().build(source.id).exitCode()

  console.log(build)

that will basically look for a Dockerfile in the directory where you're running your script and build it

[turbid ruin]

Hi @rugged portal 👋 ! Did you manage to sort this out ? Thanks